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trine which they intended to refute. Among

other’ benefits that have accrued from thefe dif-

cuflions, we may, perhaps, rank the inftitution of

the Board of Agriculture as one, which, if its enquiries fhall be profecuted for a fufficient length of time, with due caution and energy; will be, productive of national benefits, greater than perhaps have been derived from any other

political inftitution in modern times. For, al-

though the money which has been expended on™

this department, when compared with» that be-

{towed on any other national eftablifhment, may

be confidered as nothing, yet, in confequence of

its exertions, continued for the courfe of little more than one year, a body of authentic faéis,

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refpecing the agricultural and internal econo- my of this country, have already been laid be- fore the public, greater than was ever obtained in any other nation fince the beginning of time; on which facts the political enquirer can ground his reafonings, on many of the moft important

hat can ever engage his attention, with

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a degree of certainty he could never have other-

wife. obtained. In confequence of this, many ideal phantoms of propofed national aeerandife- t 4 ore)

ment will be banifhed, and, in their ftead, plans

or iubiiantial improvement will poffibly be